The Medicinal Use of Black Haw

Black Haw has been used to help prevent miscarriage, decrease bleeding after childbirth, and to treat breathing problems like bronchitis and asthma. It is also used lower blood pressure in hypertension.

Black Haw is a powerful uterine relaxant and is often used in the treatment of spasmodic dysmenorrhoea, excessive menstrual flow and false labour pain.

Black haw is also known as:

• blackhaw viburnum
• cramp bark
• sheepberry
• shonn
• sloe-leaved viburnum
• stagbush
• sweethaw
• king’s crown
• sheep berry
• tree stagbush

Common misspelling of Black Hah – blachaw, blackhawe, blachawe